Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November

Re:Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strange... by RHSeeger on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:10PM (#22238074)

> The only question is, is your cloud provider less likely to make mistakes with your data than you are?

No, the second question, which is a multiplier of the first, is how catastrophic the mistakes can be. Google _can_ accidentally do much worse things with your data, but it probably much less likely to make mistakes with it in the first place.

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Re:Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strange... by compiler-guy on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:32PM (#22239185)

Yep. If I screw up, then the worst case is pretty much that the data is gone.

If the cloud provider screws up, then the worst case is that my video goes viral and lives on the internet forever.

It isn't hard to imagine some troll finding he got some embarrassing video via takeout and putting it up on reddit for everyone to see.

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Re:Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strange... by blowski on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:24PM (#22239848)

Other worst cases - you leave the firewall wide open, and some script kiddies steal the photos, replace them with kiddie porn and refer you to the police.

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Re:Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strange... by compiler-guy on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:51PM (#22241413)

This is a risk regardless of where I store my data. If I have a machine with any local storage of any kind at all, then someone could break in and store stuff there.

So this is not a differentiator between storing your own data in the cloud and locally.

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